Diamond Sports Group is ending its broadcast deal with the National Hockey League’s Dallas Stars, as the bankrupt broadcaster seeks to make it through the summer.
The deal was scheduled to run through the NHL’s upcoming 2024-2025 season, but Diamond said it was losing money broadcasting Stars games and had its lenders’ support to end the agreement early. Last year, the company dropped the NHL’s Arizona Coyotes and Major League Baseball’s San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks.
Suter was originally drafted seventh overall by Nashville in 2003 and has had a 19-year NHL career with three teams, with the Minnesota Wild being the other. Suter has 105 goals, 576 assists and 761 penalty minutes in 1,444 regular-season games. He has seven goals and 37 assists in 133 postseason games.
The Wisconsin native ranks first among active defensemen in career games played, sixth in points, 15th in goals, tied for third in assists and ninth in penalty minutes.
Internationally, he has represented the United States in multiple competitions, including earning a gold medal at the 2004 world juniors and a silver medal at the 2010 Olympics.
The Stars are the latest team to leave the DSG/Bally Sports umbrella, yet are the first major men’s sports franchise in the U.S. to move nearly all local broadcasts out of the regional sports network model and toward a streaming service. With DSG’s future still in limbo, Texas’ hockey team decided now was the time to make the move.
